The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-28
FRANKS OF ENGLISH BLooDs.
Escapades OF of Some Well-Known and
Titled Englishmen.
From. the Mem York star

Titled Englishmen.
From the Nel0 York Star.
In the early part of this century highway
men were abundant on all the roads leading
| from sporting taverns of high repute on
Long Island as well as in England. Men
returning from their Saturday night jollty
on roads leading out from old Flushing
were often accompanied by braces of horse
pistols. So it was at Hampstead Heath,
near London The character of the sporting
people of England and Long island closely
resemble one another to this day. How
much we are alike any one familiar with
the characteristics of both can see at
glance, and how often history is repeated.
Many will remember George Work last
summer when he rode his horse into the
West End Hotel and the Rowland House at
Long Branch, and tried TO jump his horse
over the tables 1t was in the thirties that
Mr.. Osman Ricardo used to take his handiest
horses in London into big room and make
them jump over the big chairs Ricardo
had friend in the house up stairs fast
asleep, so he determined to "unearth the
old badger Recognizing what they meant
by this expression, Mr.. Davis was out of
bed in an instant, and almost before he
could get his door locked and table and a
chest OF drawers thrust against it, he heard
the horse coming up stairs and the men of
war with him. A fearful attack was made
on the intrenchments. but they were not to
be carried. Mr.. Davis stood well to his
gunswithin, and the landlord, whose patience
had been exhausted by the horses ascent,
fought like Trojan without, and the "old
badger lay curled in the garth till morning
and back down stairs by hook or crook had
the horse to be brought, which was a work
performed with much difficulty and danger
w.,
America. The present Lord Charles was in
heap of trouble in San Francisco. At one
time he came ashore from his ship with
select party, climbed to the top at the out
side of the Custom House removed the
American coat of arms, and replaced it
with n sign of pork and beans. For this he
was disciplined and compelled to apologize
officially for the prank. Jokes run in the
marquis family. The present marquis
father was stag hunting opce at Leicester
shire, when the stag bolted into frameyard
and down into cellar. The huntsinan was
one Tom Heycock. The marquis kicked the
spigot out of the ale barrel found there and
flooded the place Riders out with the mar
quis that and other days after had hard
work to find their way home. The marquis
would frequently take the precaution of
saving the guide posts and turning the
arms the wrong way One nigh the mar
qus took a lot of young country dudes out
with him into a strange country. They
were principally young fellows WIN were
fond of relating their wonderful perform
ances in the drawing room, but no one ever
saw them take a blood-curdling leap while
on the pigskin. The marquis kept them out
until moonlight; then, having arranged to
turn the sign posts the wrong way, he in
sisted on returning by jumping the stiles for
thirteen miles all the way home.
The versatility of the marquis family for
p Ire deviltry was astonishing, and Is to this
day One of the Beresfords, with his friend,
Sir Frederick johnson, tied a rope around
their horses necks and upset a gypsy encamp-
ment; as a salve tho next day bought
gypsy baby for Is and in order to get rid
of it, stuck it ON hedge to shoot at, as they
told the mother, till that nut brown
dame crept up behind and nipped off with
it. Still another story is a cure he-had for
pulling horse, which was to ride him at
hedge, on the other side of which he had
made IA deep hole full of water These and
many other good narratives are often told
at firesides in English sporting towns of the
| Marquis of Waterford's family 1t may be
| of interest to many members of our young
| hunting fraternity to know that the first
| steeplechaSe was run off in Leicestershire
about the year 1892 The distance was
about eight miles, from Barkby Holt to the
| Coplow and back, and Mr.. Charles Meynell,
son of the great NJ f. H., won it, Lord
Forester second and Sir Gilbert Heathcote
| last.
| To any of our hunting men who desire to
make high jumper, let them put their
horses into ring, with flights -four or five) of
rails in it. 1t will bring their nags' jumping
muscles into play. A man should be in the
middle of the ring to keep the animal NOV
| ing. 1t develops the jumping muscles won
| derfully.
Many who are fond of driving two
wheeers prefer Tilbury. A Tilbury
| derives its name from one Tilburv.
| a horse dealer of fame, fashion
and fortune. Mr.. Tilbury began life in a
very humble way, and ended it surrounded
with all the rural Joys an English sporting
man signs for. Tilburys great delight was
/ 10 take two raw things into Iilbury or
carIyall, turn it neatly over, and step out of
| 1t without the horse falling. Tilbury was an
! old-school, quiet-mannered man, replete
| with anecdotes, some of which ne Won Id
| forget he had told before, and they became
perfect sea seipents Old Tilbury was very
fond of riding across country, and once he
found himself in the middle of heavy, top
| dressed field, surrounded by impatient farm
ers with pitchfolks After listening to them
patiently he replied to them: I've had
| fourteen boiling house lectures. and shall
| now proceed to hunt my way out of this
| 100-acre field on purely scientific principles"
| The master OF the queens County Hunt,
| Long Island. could tell good story if he
chose of how certain belle of high social
| position aud great beauty wanted to caress
his hunter, and apologzed for his hunters
rudeness in jumping away by
saying, she had never seen anything so
! handsome before This same Long Island
sportsman gave the distinction between
| light weights and heavy ones as zone breaks
the horses backs and the other their hearts
lei Nd
excused his absence from several meets of
the hounds upon the ground of "trying TO
give up fox hunting for wife hunting" So
all the sporting wits are not across the seas
by any means.